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The
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
Vol. 71 Bloomington, Illinois, Friday, April 30, 1965
tudents Answer Ca To
CamP l Favors FestivalWorkers Qd C
pus oAdministration Praises
Results of the Spring Festival
Survey taken at second semester
registration were released this
week. The question of whether to
reinstate Spring Festival has been
turned over to the Social and Wel-fare
Commission, headed by Nancy
-Brown, and the Public Relations
Commission, headed by Bob Field.
The results were definitely in
favor of Spring Festival. Of the
400 freshmen surveyed, 63 per
cent were in favor of the event,
.21 per cent against it, and16 per
cent had no comment to make.
Freshmen who attended it in high
.school were more generally in fa-vor
than those who hadn't.
Sophomores, juniors, and sen-iors
polled much the same way.
Sixty-one per cent of the sophs,
50 per cent of the juniors, and 54
Campus- Curnival
CNaemtsp m$u s5 6C heFsot r
In spite of the clouds in the sky,
the Campus Carnival unfolded on
scheduile last Saturday at 1:00 p.m.
with a gala parade through
Bloomington. Led by an ambulance,
the parade consisted of a carload
of jolly clowns with free balloons
for children and a procession of
high-spirited revelers.
Booths opened under the Big
STop at 2:00 and stayed open until
8:30. In the Dug-Out members of
the Drama Department presented
an original melodraina. At 7:00
p.m. auctioneer Tom Roth put up
merchandise donated by various lo-cal
merchants. From 9:00 to mid-night,
the Main Lounge was the
scene of "The Beachcombers," a
dance sponsored by the Student
Union Commission. Following this,
from midnight to 1:00 anm., the
Frattiers played in the Dug-Out.
For those who purchased them,
late hours until 1:10 a.m. were in
effect for women.
KD's Capture Trophy
The trophy for the most patron-ized
booth went to the women of
Kappa Delta for their jailhouse,
which brought in 967 tickets. The
sophomore class dunking booth
'collected 629 tickets, while tphe
melodrama took 459. Kappa Kappa
Gamma followed with 379, and the
Indee men finished the top five
with 340 tickets.
Co-chairmen Phyllis Thompson
and Bob Montgomery report that
proceeds from the Carnival, which
go to the Campus Chest, presently
total $538.30, of which $95.50
came from late minute sales, and
$17.45 from the auction. Booths
brought in a total of $425.35.
per cent of the seniors would like
to see more Spring Festivals.
Students Choose Favorites
A second question asked stu-dents
to list the undesirable as-pects
of the weekend. In order of
disinterest, those named were a
Sunday morning convocation, the
baseball game, serenades, and the
opera.
In response to the other ques-tions,
55 per cent of the students
would be willing to help with an-other
festival if it were again es-tablished.
Fifty-five per cent of the
student body also feels that the
academic part of school life should
be emphasized to a greater extent,
and 48 per cent of the students
(Continued on page 9)
Boyd Analyzes Present
Aims UT G
"Is the old fraternity handshake
losing its grip?"
The above question was asked
to 450 Greeks by Dr. Joseph Boyd
at the All Greek Banquet held last
Monday evening at the Blooming-ton
Consistory.
Dr. Boyd, the main speaker for
'the evening, tossed his opening
question into the laps of the
Greeks with a thought-provoking
evaluation of the Greek system of
today.
In comparing the fraternity sys-tem
with a trital before public opin-ion,
Dr. Boyd, Director of Illinois
State Scholarship Commission and
executive secretary of Delta Tau
Delta social fraternity, placed the
Mr. William H. Bettger, 53,
Chairman of the Foreign Language
Department and associate profes-sor
of German, was pronounced
dead on arrival at Brokaw Hos-pital
last Tuesday afternoon after
he had suffered an apparent
stroke in his apartment at 308 /
E. Walnut at approximately 4:15
p.m.
Mir. Bettger was found by Deans
Donald Ruthenberg and Anne Mei-erhofer
who were summoned by
Miss Lucile Klauser, associate pro-
Dek System
incoming college freshman as the
jury or the key to the outcome of
this trial.
Case For Greek System
What is the case for the fraterni-ty
system? Boyd stated that the
usual answers such as better food,
living, parties, and status do not
satisfy the incoming college fresh-man
of today.
The prospective college fraterni-ty
member is surrounded by a
cloud of ideals vs. action according
to Boyd.
The college freshman asks him-self
questions such as "Are fra-ternity
members really what they
say they are?" or "What kind of
(Continued on page 8),
fessor of English and a neighbor
of Bettger.
Mr. Bettger attended the Univer-sity
of Colorado, in Boulder, from
1930-1935 receiving both his Bache-lor
of Arts and his Master of Arts
in German.
Assistant At Texas
He was later an instructor and
assistant professor at Texas A and
M College from 1935-1943; Instruc-tor
at the University of Colorado,
1945-46; Teaching Fellowship at
the University of Michigan, 1946-
47; and Instructor at Northwestern
University, 1947-50.
In 1950, 'Mr. Bettger came to
Wesleyan with the rank of assist-ant
professor. He was appointed
to his present rank in 1958.
His special fields of concentra-tion
have been German Literature
and Spanish Conversation.
The deceased is survived by his
parents Mr. and Mrs. John Bettger
of Sterling, Colorado. He is also
survived by two sisters and four
brothers.
The body was taken to the Fins-pach-
Kurth Memorial Home and
later transferred to Sterling, Col-orado.
A memorial service for Mr. Bett-ger
will be held in Chapel next
Wednesday.
No. 28
yeas
Region;
fction
A small but steady stream of Wesleyan students has
been moving to and from the flood-ravaged Quad city area
of Rock Island, Moline, Bettendorf, and Davenport this
week. The students have been helping in sand bagging
and other emergency operations in the area. Student as-sistance
started as the result of a plea for help from the
Reverend Frank Witt of Milan, located 5 miles south of
Rock Island, last Monday morning.
Forty In First Group
The call was received by Presi-dent
Lloyd Bertholf around 10 a.m.
President Bertholf, after consult-ing
with Dean Donald Ruthenberg,
issued a statement extending sym-pathy
with the plea and unofficial
approval of any student action
which might be forthcoming. It
was stated at the time, however,
that students could not be excused
from classes for this purpose.
Monday night a total of forty
Wesleyan students left at 11:00
p.m. Thirty were headed for Milan
and ten went to Moline. Upon ar-riving
around 1:30 a.m. the stu-dents
went to work helping in the
sand bagging operations.
Water Still Rising
Students arriving at Milan found
a situation which was rather un-stable.
Shortly after their arrival
a break developed in one of the
dikes. With the added reinforce-ments
the leak was soon stopped.
After spending another hour shor-ing
up the minor dikes in the area
the students, along with some from
Augustana, went to work reinforc-ing
the major dike.
The major dike is a little over
three quarters of a mile long. It is
located 42 miles from the normal
banks of the Mississippi river. Mon-day
night it was holding back a
wall of water ten feet high.
Titans Aid In Stabilization
As the night wore on the water
raised about four inches on the
dike. Leaks started developing and
the night was spent stopping these
leaks. After an hour break for a
breakfast prepared by the women
of Milan, who are maintaining a
24-hour lunch stand in the fire
station, the Titans were back out
on the dikes.
During the night the Wesleyan
troops had one casualty as Tim
Townsend suffered a 1 / inch gash
on his head which required four
stitches.
The early morning was spent
shoring up leaks until more help
could arrive and enable the crew
to reinforce the entire dike. In
the afternoon the students headed
tion. Water had made many of the
streets impassable. The only means
of transportation in some areas
were bulldozers which were used
to transport men and sandbags to
their destination. River rats, which
were not seen at Milan, were in
abundance at Moline.
Authorities in the Quad-Cities
area have been quick to both note
and applaud the actions of college
students in maintaining the dikes
and in cleaning up flood damage.
As several residents of Milan told
this reporter, "We could never
have held against the flood if it
weren't for you guys." Another
said, "Some of the people have
said you guys were too soft to
hold up under heavy work. You've
sure proved you're not."
People in the town were ex-tremely
friendly and cooperative
with the students in providing food
and a place to rest if it was needed.
Praise for the Wesleyan students
also came from president Lloyd
Bertholf. In a statement he said,
"Students of Wesleyan are demon.
strating by their going that they
are deeply concerned with the fate
of the unfortunate people in the
overflowing river areas and they
want to exhibit good citizenship
by helping in this emergency. Wes-leyan
is proud of this spirit, proud
of the way this spirit is exhibited,
but it is this type of concern that
Wesleyan stands for all of the
time."
Help Still Needed
Officials in the area were quick
(Continued on page 8)
NOTICE
All students interested in work.
ing on the ARGUS next year are
asked to attend a staff meeting at
4 p.m. Monday in the ARGUS of-fce
in the basement of Holmes
Hall.
-P s
ON-THE INSIDE
President's Corner ................. 2
Letters ------ ------- 2, 9
back for Wesleyan while another Editorials --------------------. 2
contigent was starting up north Capitol Hill Comments--------....5
from the campus. At this time5
Milan was rated as the most se- Carnival Pix --... ..-------------- 6, 7
cure of the cities in the area. Wes-leyan's
effort was partially respon- Charles Martel Ill ------------
sible for this. Spectator----_-----------.....11, 12
The ten students who went to
Moline found a much worse situa- Sports ............. ..-----------1-0---------
Bettgr Dis; Servie Planned-i

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The
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
Vol. 71 Bloomington, Illinois, Friday, April 30, 1965
tudents Answer Ca To
CamP l Favors FestivalWorkers Qd C
pus oAdministration Praises
Results of the Spring Festival
Survey taken at second semester
registration were released this
week. The question of whether to
reinstate Spring Festival has been
turned over to the Social and Wel-fare
Commission, headed by Nancy
-Brown, and the Public Relations
Commission, headed by Bob Field.
The results were definitely in
favor of Spring Festival. Of the
400 freshmen surveyed, 63 per
cent were in favor of the event,
.21 per cent against it, and16 per
cent had no comment to make.
Freshmen who attended it in high
.school were more generally in fa-vor
than those who hadn't.
Sophomores, juniors, and sen-iors
polled much the same way.
Sixty-one per cent of the sophs,
50 per cent of the juniors, and 54
Campus- Curnival
CNaemtsp m$u s5 6C heFsot r
In spite of the clouds in the sky,
the Campus Carnival unfolded on
scheduile last Saturday at 1:00 p.m.
with a gala parade through
Bloomington. Led by an ambulance,
the parade consisted of a carload
of jolly clowns with free balloons
for children and a procession of
high-spirited revelers.
Booths opened under the Big
STop at 2:00 and stayed open until
8:30. In the Dug-Out members of
the Drama Department presented
an original melodraina. At 7:00
p.m. auctioneer Tom Roth put up
merchandise donated by various lo-cal
merchants. From 9:00 to mid-night,
the Main Lounge was the
scene of "The Beachcombers," a
dance sponsored by the Student
Union Commission. Following this,
from midnight to 1:00 anm., the
Frattiers played in the Dug-Out.
For those who purchased them,
late hours until 1:10 a.m. were in
effect for women.
KD's Capture Trophy
The trophy for the most patron-ized
booth went to the women of
Kappa Delta for their jailhouse,
which brought in 967 tickets. The
sophomore class dunking booth
'collected 629 tickets, while tphe
melodrama took 459. Kappa Kappa
Gamma followed with 379, and the
Indee men finished the top five
with 340 tickets.
Co-chairmen Phyllis Thompson
and Bob Montgomery report that
proceeds from the Carnival, which
go to the Campus Chest, presently
total $538.30, of which $95.50
came from late minute sales, and
$17.45 from the auction. Booths
brought in a total of $425.35.
per cent of the seniors would like
to see more Spring Festivals.
Students Choose Favorites
A second question asked stu-dents
to list the undesirable as-pects
of the weekend. In order of
disinterest, those named were a
Sunday morning convocation, the
baseball game, serenades, and the
opera.
In response to the other ques-tions,
55 per cent of the students
would be willing to help with an-other
festival if it were again es-tablished.
Fifty-five per cent of the
student body also feels that the
academic part of school life should
be emphasized to a greater extent,
and 48 per cent of the students
(Continued on page 9)
Boyd Analyzes Present
Aims UT G
"Is the old fraternity handshake
losing its grip?"
The above question was asked
to 450 Greeks by Dr. Joseph Boyd
at the All Greek Banquet held last
Monday evening at the Blooming-ton
Consistory.
Dr. Boyd, the main speaker for
'the evening, tossed his opening
question into the laps of the
Greeks with a thought-provoking
evaluation of the Greek system of
today.
In comparing the fraternity sys-tem
with a trital before public opin-ion,
Dr. Boyd, Director of Illinois
State Scholarship Commission and
executive secretary of Delta Tau
Delta social fraternity, placed the
Mr. William H. Bettger, 53,
Chairman of the Foreign Language
Department and associate profes-sor
of German, was pronounced
dead on arrival at Brokaw Hos-pital
last Tuesday afternoon after
he had suffered an apparent
stroke in his apartment at 308 /
E. Walnut at approximately 4:15
p.m.
Mir. Bettger was found by Deans
Donald Ruthenberg and Anne Mei-erhofer
who were summoned by
Miss Lucile Klauser, associate pro-
Dek System
incoming college freshman as the
jury or the key to the outcome of
this trial.
Case For Greek System
What is the case for the fraterni-ty
system? Boyd stated that the
usual answers such as better food,
living, parties, and status do not
satisfy the incoming college fresh-man
of today.
The prospective college fraterni-ty
member is surrounded by a
cloud of ideals vs. action according
to Boyd.
The college freshman asks him-self
questions such as "Are fra-ternity
members really what they
say they are?" or "What kind of
(Continued on page 8),
fessor of English and a neighbor
of Bettger.
Mr. Bettger attended the Univer-sity
of Colorado, in Boulder, from
1930-1935 receiving both his Bache-lor
of Arts and his Master of Arts
in German.
Assistant At Texas
He was later an instructor and
assistant professor at Texas A and
M College from 1935-1943; Instruc-tor
at the University of Colorado,
1945-46; Teaching Fellowship at
the University of Michigan, 1946-
47; and Instructor at Northwestern
University, 1947-50.
In 1950, 'Mr. Bettger came to
Wesleyan with the rank of assist-ant
professor. He was appointed
to his present rank in 1958.
His special fields of concentra-tion
have been German Literature
and Spanish Conversation.
The deceased is survived by his
parents Mr. and Mrs. John Bettger
of Sterling, Colorado. He is also
survived by two sisters and four
brothers.
The body was taken to the Fins-pach-
Kurth Memorial Home and
later transferred to Sterling, Col-orado.
A memorial service for Mr. Bett-ger
will be held in Chapel next
Wednesday.
No. 28
yeas
Region;
fction
A small but steady stream of Wesleyan students has
been moving to and from the flood-ravaged Quad city area
of Rock Island, Moline, Bettendorf, and Davenport this
week. The students have been helping in sand bagging
and other emergency operations in the area. Student as-sistance
started as the result of a plea for help from the
Reverend Frank Witt of Milan, located 5 miles south of
Rock Island, last Monday morning.
Forty In First Group
The call was received by Presi-dent
Lloyd Bertholf around 10 a.m.
President Bertholf, after consult-ing
with Dean Donald Ruthenberg,
issued a statement extending sym-pathy
with the plea and unofficial
approval of any student action
which might be forthcoming. It
was stated at the time, however,
that students could not be excused
from classes for this purpose.
Monday night a total of forty
Wesleyan students left at 11:00
p.m. Thirty were headed for Milan
and ten went to Moline. Upon ar-riving
around 1:30 a.m. the stu-dents
went to work helping in the
sand bagging operations.
Water Still Rising
Students arriving at Milan found
a situation which was rather un-stable.
Shortly after their arrival
a break developed in one of the
dikes. With the added reinforce-ments
the leak was soon stopped.
After spending another hour shor-ing
up the minor dikes in the area
the students, along with some from
Augustana, went to work reinforc-ing
the major dike.
The major dike is a little over
three quarters of a mile long. It is
located 42 miles from the normal
banks of the Mississippi river. Mon-day
night it was holding back a
wall of water ten feet high.
Titans Aid In Stabilization
As the night wore on the water
raised about four inches on the
dike. Leaks started developing and
the night was spent stopping these
leaks. After an hour break for a
breakfast prepared by the women
of Milan, who are maintaining a
24-hour lunch stand in the fire
station, the Titans were back out
on the dikes.
During the night the Wesleyan
troops had one casualty as Tim
Townsend suffered a 1 / inch gash
on his head which required four
stitches.
The early morning was spent
shoring up leaks until more help
could arrive and enable the crew
to reinforce the entire dike. In
the afternoon the students headed
tion. Water had made many of the
streets impassable. The only means
of transportation in some areas
were bulldozers which were used
to transport men and sandbags to
their destination. River rats, which
were not seen at Milan, were in
abundance at Moline.
Authorities in the Quad-Cities
area have been quick to both note
and applaud the actions of college
students in maintaining the dikes
and in cleaning up flood damage.
As several residents of Milan told
this reporter, "We could never
have held against the flood if it
weren't for you guys." Another
said, "Some of the people have
said you guys were too soft to
hold up under heavy work. You've
sure proved you're not."
People in the town were ex-tremely
friendly and cooperative
with the students in providing food
and a place to rest if it was needed.
Praise for the Wesleyan students
also came from president Lloyd
Bertholf. In a statement he said,
"Students of Wesleyan are demon.
strating by their going that they
are deeply concerned with the fate
of the unfortunate people in the
overflowing river areas and they
want to exhibit good citizenship
by helping in this emergency. Wes-leyan
is proud of this spirit, proud
of the way this spirit is exhibited,
but it is this type of concern that
Wesleyan stands for all of the
time."
Help Still Needed
Officials in the area were quick
(Continued on page 8)
NOTICE
All students interested in work.
ing on the ARGUS next year are
asked to attend a staff meeting at
4 p.m. Monday in the ARGUS of-fce
in the basement of Holmes
Hall.
-P s
ON-THE INSIDE
President's Corner ................. 2
Letters ------ ------- 2, 9
back for Wesleyan while another Editorials --------------------. 2
contigent was starting up north Capitol Hill Comments--------....5
from the campus. At this time5
Milan was rated as the most se- Carnival Pix --... ..-------------- 6, 7
cure of the cities in the area. Wes-leyan's
effort was partially respon- Charles Martel Ill ------------
sible for this. Spectator----_-----------.....11, 12
The ten students who went to
Moline found a much worse situa- Sports ............. ..-----------1-0---------
Bettgr Dis; Servie Planned-i